Internet Hate Machine (2007)NSFW

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“Internet Hate Machine” is a term ironically used by Anonymous to name their “group”.
While some people could use it as a serious claim towards Anonymous, many others commonly take it as a joke for the expression is supposed to embody everything concerning Anonymous’ actions and the fact that they have a sadistic pleasure in tormenting others and/or corrupting things, then creating hatred on internet.
The best example could be the “lol” word corrupted as “lulz”, which implies that enjoyment was derived from another’s misfortune.

Origin

The “Internet Hate Machine” slang was coined by Los Angeles Fox affiliate KTTV on July the 26th 2007, while investigating the growing phenomenon of “Anonymous” hacking Myspaces accounts, cyberbullying, “being domestic terrorists” and… that sort of stuff:

Prior to project Chanology in 2008, it was one of the first time that 4chan and Anonymous appeared under the mainstream media spotlight.

Jumping on it

The overly-dramatized tone in the report leading to a conclusion that Anonymous is some kind of horrible threat/monster for internet caught on immediately and video responses by Anonymous were made in order to mock on it:

They also decided to flood MyFox boards and forums to scare them.

At the same time, two notable sub-memes showed up. Like “Internet Hate Machine”, they were coined by the reporter.

Exploding Van

In order to illustrate the damages caused by Anonymous’ “domestic terrorism”, they used a video involving the explosion of a yellow van. To learn more about the meme in itself, see there.

Hackers on Steroids

“Hackers on Steroids” is a term used in the report to indicate the members of Anonymous “group”. Anonymous took the expression on its own and use it as a joke to name any member of Anonymous.
2 Urban Dicionary entries as well as an ED article have been made to explain that lesser phenomenon.


Term jokingly used to describe members of Anonymous by Anonymous. Really used to make fun of the way the KTTV reporter described Anonymous in a summer of 2007 report on Anonymous.

The report described a family that was supposedly targeted by Anonymous. The matriarch described the family’s attempts at safety by shutting the curtains and showing off the new family dog.

These hackers on steroids have only two weaknesses: dogs and curtains.

Internet Hate Machine meme spread

Only a few days following the news report, Youtube video remixes began to appear:

Youtube poop variation:

In november 2008, an Internet Hate Machine Intro logo was made on youtube:

Urban Dictionary entries began to show up the 28th of July 2007

2 ytmnd entries have been made, in august and september of 2007 respectively:

Even a music mix has been made out of the meme (A complete album exists and is named “Lulz: a corruption of LOL” featuring that song and many others coming from various memes):

Ultimately, the meme has been mentioned in some webcomics including XKCD or Bigger Than Cheeses, during the project Chanology.

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19 Comments

Chris Menning
Sep 21, 2009 at 04:56AM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Ha! That’s a labeling machine. I used to do setup and maintence on those a few years back.

Tomberry
Sep 21, 2009 at 05:09AM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

The pictures involving the swastika symbol are part of the mutations, as, even if it’s in order to shock, they are used to show the too easy (fairly made or not) relation that one can make between Anonymous, their actions, the hatred and nazism, thus Godwin’s law.

That’s why I remade the article NSFW.

If they are too extreme to be shown, then please delete it.

Chris Menning
Sep 21, 2009 at 05:53AM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it’ll say “Holden Caulfield” on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it’ll say “Fuck you.” I’m positive.

Tomberry
Sep 21, 2009 at 06:02AM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

“Fuck you” to the hero of “The Catcher in the Rye” ? Hu, wait what ? I think I missed something…

Chris Menning
Sep 21, 2009 at 06:27AM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

The whole thing was a quote from the book. I was comparing how the idea of 4chan as an Internet Hate Machine is analagous to seeing that someone wrote “fuck you” on a wall in a children’s school, how you’ll see “fuck you” written in a bathroom stall, and eventually someone may write it on your tombstone. Basically, it’s the same thing taken up a few notches.

Tomberry
Sep 21, 2009 at 06:35AM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

Oh… Ok. I think I see now.

Adler
Sep 21, 2009 at 06:17PM UTC , Adler wrote:

She installed an electronic security system, a phone tracing system, and bought a dog.

“Yip”

WTF!

Cathbrian McKillen
Sep 21, 2009 at 10:43PM UTC , Cathbrian McKillen wrote:

Anonymous Don’t Have A Chance They Don’t Have A Definite Leader And All Of There Acts Are Random, Plus There Spread Out Across The Whole Internet. So Eventually Divided They Fall.

Shadowfury
Sep 21, 2009 at 10:50PM UTC , Shadowfury wrote:

@Cathbrian: What? All I got was “divided they fail”. Fail what?
Also, Capitalizing Every Word Is Really Annoying.

Deuxieme_en_pie
Sep 21, 2009 at 11:39PM UTC , Deuxieme_en_pie wrote:

lolwtf is there something I’m not getting here?
Is that Fox news thing a real story that they did?

If so, LOL!

If not, meh.

Shadowfury
Sep 22, 2009 at 12:10AM UTC , Shadowfury wrote:

4chan.com? Wtf? Fail.

Tomberry
Sep 22, 2009 at 02:41PM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

@Deuxieme en pie.

Yes, they really made that news report and that was not the only one.
In total, there were 3 Fox news reports on anonymous and their “threat” before Project Chanology ever began (thus, from 2007 to 2008).

The one on this article was the first.

You can see the other two on the ED link concerning “Hackers on Steroids”.

Here are the others 2 videos:

- The first dating from november 2007

- The second from february 2008:

Deuxieme_en_pie
Sep 22, 2009 at 08:58PM UTC , Deuxieme_en_pie wrote:

^^ Wow. I just lol’d baad

kikinak
Sep 29, 2009 at 05:20PM UTC , kikinak wrote:

they call themselves anonymous they are hackers on steroids

Last HCompany
Oct 09, 2009 at 12:16PM UTC , Last HCompany wrote:

Fox got it wrong! The guys who do that are our Anonymous Brand Cannon Fodder.

He got it wrong. Those are the Raidfags.
Fox news are dumb (sorry)

Shadowfury
Oct 09, 2009 at 12:33PM UTC , Shadowfury wrote:

@Last HCompany:
ZOMG! FOX NEWZ WUZ WRONG???!!!!
Seriously, though, this is only one instance of their idiocy that happens to involve the internet, of which they are ignorant.
And yes, we all know that the report only covered raidfags, the Anonymous-borg, and the die-hard /i/nsurgents, but they were stupid and took all of their information from some newfag that needs to lurk WAY more.

AdmiralFalcon
Nov 19, 2009 at 01:16AM UTC , AdmiralFalcon wrote:

Ironically is spelt wrong in the article. Needs fixing.

Erika Williams
Nov 23, 2009 at 03:35AM UTC , Erika Williams wrote:

These stories are yet another case of “Didn’t Do The Research” that FOX News and the mainstream media at large has given us. Like seriously, these newscasters are moronic, how long would it take them to type in a URL and actually look around a bit?

Instead they point accusatory fingers at people, throwing labels around like no tomorrow, even if those labels don’t fit 10% of the people they’re doing a report on. Like how’d Anonymous get a hold of the passwords of the guy whose MySpace got hacked? I’ll bet you anything that he was being moronic and let it slip, or he downloaded a trojan or some redarded stuff like that. I mean, if you do something idiotic like letting a known theif stay the night, I say it’s your own damn fault if he steals your TV and bails before you wake up.

Chi The Cat
Dec 11, 2009 at 08:50PM UTC , Chi The Cat wrote:

If the news report had been about internet security and hadn’t simply pointed the finger at Anonymous as a whole, it would’ve been acceptable.

But it’s kind of like if Zelda 2 was released as a different title, it wouldn’t have been remembered as being so terrible. They took the same idea, (anonymous people can be dangerous) and put it in the wrong format. (OMG ANONYMOUS IS ALL HAXXERS!)

LULZ nice job Fox, thanks for the lols.

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